Good morning, it is midnight in beijing its 11 00 a. M. On wall street and squawk alley is live. Good friday morning welcome to squawk alley. Im jon fortt with carl quintanilla. Its the end of cloud week on squawk alley. What a week its been. They have brought news on custom chips, Machine Learning and more sales force announced plans to buy slack for nearly 28 billion in the second largest Software Deal ever. Weve had ibm and microsoft weigh in snowflake and others have turned in blah earnings well hear from the ceo this hour what does it mean for investors already sky high investor malic noijoins us now i cant believe we never had you on squawk alley before i hope this is a trend i want to start with sales force slack. I know that you have known stu butterfield for a long time, even before flicker was a hit. You think this very expensive deal makes sense why . So lets remove the price out of the equation. I think what youre looking at right now is in 2020, we have gone from the idea
Dus good Tuesday Morning i spoke with aws ceo exclusively last night covering a wide range of topics. Youll hear about all hour including Data Warehousing and the emergence of snowflake in that space which by the way runs on aws heres what jasy said about whether there is room enough for snowflake and aws sorry, snowflake competitor from aws red shift in the market. I think its unquestionable that theres room for both snowflake and red shift to be very successful and grow to be very, you know, a lot larger than both of them are today. We launched redshift back in 2012 and it was the first Data Warehouse built for the cloud and continues to be the largest Data Warehouse in the cloud. And, you know, snowflake built a Data Warehousing offering as well that is also strong offering and largely runs on top of aws we work just as hard for snowflake in trying to make it easy for people to use redshift. From our perspective, if customers want to run on snowflake for their Data Warehouse on top
Highs. Coming up a busy news day, and a series of big interviews as well. The ceo of gap, jonah snngal, her first interview since taking the job in march talking about the post covid lavin escape and the partnership with kanye west. Plus we have patrick frisk with his partnership with steph curry. We will discuss the fierce competent anything footwear. And salesforces deal to buy slack is expected to be announced today after the bell we should get those details. And sales details also out after the close. Looking forward to that. Slack up a little bit today. Lets get to the Market Action mike santoli is tracking it. As stocks moving higher but off the highs of the session. For three weeks they have been mostly sideways around the recent highs right now we are a little less than 1 above the intraday high from november 9th. Est that was the day the election was called. Then you had the vaccine from pfizer that was right in here intraday high. At a record. 67 above the march 23rd low righ
I turn to you first, laura set the scene first. How does the market look to you . What are you focusing on its really, really an interesting time in the markets right now. You have this dichotomy where were seeing some strength in the markets. I think were a little off today but youre seeing some read through or look through in the market to say, hey, were going to see optimism on the other side however the economy hasnt quite caught up yet to the markets i think we are going to need and we need to focus on making sure that the legislature realized we still need stimulus, we need the consumer thats twothirds of this economy back in full swing. Not getting it. Not right now what does that mean if i tell you were not getting it, were not getting it any time soon. Soon is relative as well, right . Theres a lot of levers that can be pulled here i think that were getting things together and, you know, i wish we could get it during december at some point youre right, it does not look like it
Consumer in this covid economy and a ventilator boost from medtronic, but sales for other medical devices remain lower medtronics ceo will join us exclusively later this hour. Carl, jims shaking his head already. I dont know speculative market ive ever seen i was going to say, jim, i mean, what a confluence of headlines and then to layer on what you were talking about with becky, this seemingly endless generational bid for stocks in general. You know, look at these plug power did a deal last week, 38 million shares of 22. 25, norwegian did a deal of 40 million shares at 20. 80, carnival did a huge deal at 17. 59, up huge on that, American Airlines did a deal, huge amount of stock, and about price that is a dollar below where this it is trading. Ive never seen anything like it where are the profit takers . Where are they i dont know. This is listen, we have been talking about this new cohort in the market, theyre for real, man. They are real it is not just ev stocks that are ev Companie